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and the earth drank deep
Ntsika Kota
Ntsika Kota is the winner of the 2022 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Africa.
The Last Diver on Earth
Sofia Mariah Ma
Winner of the 2022 Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize for Asia.
Divination
Guadalupe Nettel
‘It is easy, when we are young, to have ideals and to live according to them.’
An excerpt from Guadalupe Nettel’s Still Born.
Abandonment
Ralf Webb
‘I sensed that as she listened she looked right through my skull and saw the cringing figure living there, the figure that keeps guard over all my secret strategies and disguises.’
New fiction from Ralf Webb.
A Hat for Lemer
Cecil Browne
Winner of the 2022 Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize for Canada and Europe.
Dogs of Summer
Andrea Abreu
‘There was no one around that day, so we decided to put on our bikini tops for the first time.’
An extract from Andrea Abreu’s debut novel. Translated from the Spanish by Julia Sanches.
Bridge Over the Yallahs River
Diana McCaulay
Winner of the 2022 Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize for the Caribbean region.
Scream Queen
Julia Armfield
‘She is well-behaved, as icons go, she toes the party line.’
Short fiction by the author of Our Wives Under the Sea.
Welcome to the New World
Jessi Jezewska Stevens
New fiction from Jessi Jezewska Stevens. ‘Debt is the molten bedrock upon which all else shifts.’
The Nightwatch
Mary Rokonadravu
Winner of the 2022 Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize for the Pacific region.
We Had to Remove This Post
Hanna Bervoets
‘A video of someone flinging their cat out the window is only allowed if cruelty is not a motive’. An excerpt from the new novel by Hanna Bervoets.
Acts of Service
Lillian Fishman
‘I had hundreds of nudes stored in my phone, but I’d never sent them to anyone.’
An excerpt from Lillian Fishman’s new novel.
